Updated: 8:04 AM Members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors meet behind closed doors Thursday to discuss UNC System President Tom Ross's regular annual review.

Updated: 8:23 PM Gov. Pat McCrory is scheduled to hold a news conference Thursday to discuss preparing for hurricanes. Saturday marks the start of the hurricane season.

Updated: 11:27 AM Gov. Pat McCrory is set to talk about hurricane preparedness as North Carolina faces the 2013 Atlantic season.

Posted: 8:55 PM The projected shortfall through June 30 has more than doubled since earlier this month to $330 million.

Posted: 8:43 PM A North Carolina man is headed to prison for threatening President Barack Obama through Twitter during the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

Posted: 7:36 PM The House has confirmed two appointments of Gov. Pat McCrory to the North Carolina Utilities Commission and a third to represent consumer interests before the regulatory panel.

Updated: 12:01 AM The effort to get executions restarted in North Carolina moved forward in Raleigh the same day the death penalty was handed down for a man accused of killing a 5-year-old girl.

Updated: 7:33 PM The deal to sell the pork producer that has multiple locations in Eastern Carolina is worth $4.7 billion.

Updated: 6:12 AM A committee in the state senate will debate a bill that requires school boards to ensure all of their students can create readable cursive documents by the end of fifth grade and can show they've memorized multiplication tables.

Updated: 10:02 PM The Highway Patrol says this past Memorial Day holiday weekend had more than double the fatal wrecks than the same time last year including 2 in the east.

Posted: 8:31 PM A Coast Guard rescue crew from the east was dispatched to rescue a woman who suffered a heart attack on a cruise ship off our coast.

Updated: 11:47 PM Two years after the General Assembly demanded new and higher tolls for ferry routes along the North Carolina coast, the proposed changes may take even longer to enact.

Posted: 1:00 PM A gun-rights advocacy group is running radio commercials criticizing University of North Carolina system leaders for opposing a bill that would allow students and staff to bring a concealed pistol on campus.

Updated: 5:55 AM U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan is heading to Fayetteville to honor military spouses who make significant contributions to their communities.

Posted: 12:15 AM The Greenville Town Common was packed with about 100 people Monday in red, white, and blue and military uniforms honoring those who died so we can be free.

Updated: 11:46 PM 55 headstones with mistakes have been found. The problems range from misspelled names to incorrect ranks. Soldiers have checked about 60 percent of the cemetery's 2,644 headstones.

Updated: 12:33 AM Twelve eastern North Carolina students have been awarded $1,000 scholarships from Ronald McDonald House Charities of North Carolina and local McDonald’s owner/operators for outstanding academic achievement and community involvement.

Posted: 1:36 AM Kevin Harvick has won the Coca-Cola 600 for the second time in three years, pulling away from runner-up Kasey Kahne on a restart with 11 laps left.

Posted: 4:39 PM Authorities have identified a man that Union County deputies say was killed after he broke into a home in Marshville.

Posted: 4:13 PM Electric car manufacturer Tesla wants a compromise that will allow it to stay in business in North Carolina.

Posted: 8:50 PM Police have made eight arrests in connection with the backlog of cases found at Elizabeth City State University, a situation that led to the resignation of the school's chancellor and police chief.

Updated: 11:48 PM The state Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday that the Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Greenville has been certified by the federal government to become the state's only inpatient center

Posted: 5:08 PM Teachers and staff at Camp Lejeune Schools, and those at all Department of Defense schools, face furloughs due to sequestration.

Updated: 7:53 PM The National Park Service is offering two full moon tours of the 257-step Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.

Posted: 6:27 AM Beachgoers in North Carolina this holiday weekend may get a rare opportunity to spot a gray seal.